Apps play a huge role in our lives today. Thousands of people utilize apps daily, and these innovations has soon become part of our lifestyle. Henry Alford, author of the article, narrates his 3 weeks experience of improving his life through apps. Alford narrates how he starts his journey by starting off with a calorie counting app, Meal Snap. Through meal snap, he logs his meals and snacks getting an instant feedback on how many calories it has.Through this app, he is able to regulate his eating habits and late night snacks are soon enough gone. During his journey with this app, he encounters a man on the street, to whom he asks if he doesn't think that people's lives today are being controlled by apps. The man responds how it is fearful, however, "a picture of a doughnut seems nice." Alford also tells his torn opinion on the apps Learn Hip Hop and John & Johnson's 7 Minute Workout. However, he does express an unconditional love towards the app TaskRabbit, an app that ables you to find people to help you with any task. For last, he experiences the clothing app. Through three different apps, he purchases pants and reviews them. He was skeptical at first, but is impressed how one of the apps did deliver him very delightful pants.However, the other two did not. To conclude his journey, Alford writes how apps can be "a little too much", taking over our lives, but also very useful too.
Henry Alford writes a narrative piece about his experiment of improving his life through apps. Alford uses personal pronouns throughout his article and it helps his experience appeal more to readers. All the aspects of life he tries to improve are very relatable to all readers. His language is very lightweight and approachable, being easy to understand. He writes in a very entertaining way, utilizing a lot of metaphors and personal accounts. For example, when concluding his opinion and thoughts for this experiment, Alford solidifies his thought on it by connecting it to the man's statement on how it is fearful, but at the same time quite entertaining. Overall, Alford has done a great job on writing this piece: it is both entertaining and relatable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/style/what-isnt-there-an-app-for.html?ref=fashion
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